The single mom viciously pummeled in a violent Cincinnati street brawl last month slammed the city’s top cop for calling the beatdown an “incident” – and she claimed neither the police chief nor the mayor have apologized for the violence that unfolded on their watch.
The woman, publicly referred to as Holly, said it’s “insulting” that embattled Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge characterized the July 26 melee as an “incident” during a press conference two days later.
“It definitely didn’t seem like an incident, it seemed like a beatdown attack,” Holly told Fox News’ Laura Ingram during an appearance on “The Ingram Angle” Thursday night.
“I look at it as attempted murder, there’s no other way to describe it. I think an incident is insulting to be honest and I have yet to receive a phone call from her or the mayor just apologizing for what happened and for letting these thugs and criminals run the streets when they should have been in jail to begin with.”
The violent attack left Holly with a gruesome black eye, busted lip, bruises covering her face and neck. She is now suffering from brain trauma and a concussion, in addition to severe bruising throughout her face and body.
Viral footage of the street brawl showed a group of mostly black men surrounding Holly and an unidentified man, both of whom are white.
The two victims were punched and stomped on as they cowered on the ground. Holly was later sucker-punched and knocked-out cold, with blood pouring from her mouth as she lay defenseless in the city street after trying to intervene in the rumble.
Montianez Merriweather, 34, Jermaine Matthews, 39, Aisha Devaughn, 25, Dominique Kittle, 37, and bystander Dekyra Vernon, 24 – believed to be the woman who clobbered Holly in the back of the head before a man slugged her directly in the face – are among the alleged sluggers arrested.
They are all charged with felonious assault, assault and aggravated riot.
Another person has been charged with the brutal ambush and is being tracked down by a fugitive task force. Authorities said they will not release their identities until they are captured.
While a motive for the attack remains unclear, a new video surfaced last weekend showing the victims hurling racial slurs at their attackers moments before the barbaric beatdown erupted.
The family of Merriweather also claims he was called racial slurs and spat on in the lead up to the brawl – and claimed that the street rampage has only garnered so much attention and outrage because the victim is a white woman.
“If it was an African American woman who got knocked out … we wouldn’t have been going through all this,” said an unidentified loved one of Merriweather, whom cops accused of coordinating the “ambush” attack, to WLWT last week.
Race has been a focus of the vicious street fight, with the five arrested individuals — all black — being accused of racism against the white victims.
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